BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 16, 2024
The season is here for watching sturgeon and the group Upstream Cobbossee has dug out chairs and spiffed them up for people to sit and watch the more than 200-million-year-old species of fish.Maine has two sturgeons: Atlantic, which can get up to 800 pounds and 16 feet long, and the shortnosed, which reach 4 ½ feet long and 60 pounds, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries. The short-nosed sturgeon is basically unchanged from fossils dated to 65 million years ago. Gardiner is one of several places in Maine where you can watch the sturgeon jump.